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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
1986
Online ISBN:
9780511522642

Book description

Parliamentary Selection examines the process by which members of Parliament were chosen in the period between the reigns of Elizabeth I and William III. By focusing on the nature of the selection process, rather than on its results, Professor Kishlansky uncovers a fundamental transformation in assumptions about political behaviour in the early modern period. Until the time of the English Revolution, selection of members of Parliament was a social process dominated by concern about rank and status, personal honor, and community solidarity. County elites organized their selections to reflect the realities of their local social structures, accounting for the influence of the county peerage and greater gentry. Borough elites used local patrons, officeholders, and denizens for nominations to their places. In both county and borough the principle of parliamentary selection was non-competitive choice.

Reviews

‘A forceful and penetrating study which obliges us to abandon many of our previous assumptions about the working of seventeenth-century parliamentary elections and has important implications for our understanding of the ‘democratic’ electoral process in general.’

J. P. Kenyon - University of St Andrews

‘A startling thesis, brilliantly sustained, and written with wit and panache.’

J. S. Morrill - Selwyn College, Cambridge

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